Abstract
Among different type of illiterate people, the print illiterates suffer most from getting crucial information passed around the society. Many print illiterate people are found in the developing countries and in many cases they live in the remote areas working as farmers. These people are deprived of the knowledge generated from the latest scientific researches. This research makes some recommendations related to developing user interface especially suitable for the print illiterate people. In this regard, a user interface is developed based on the recommendations from the previous researchers. The authors find the recommendations insufficient and develop another user interface based on the improvements proposed by the authors. Later both the user interfaces are tested by two different groups of print illiterate people in a remote village in Bangladesh. The test data shows that the proposed improvement contributes significantly to make the user interface more usable to the target population. 13 out of 15 users could complete the assigned task successfully using improved user interface. Whereas only 8 out of 14 users could do the same with the other user interface. Among the successful users, the improved user interface took 26% less time than that of the other user interface. Finally some recommendations to develop user interface for the functionally illiterate people are made based on the results and observations of this research.
Highlights
In the backdrop of evolving different technologies, more complex set of illiteracy is being observed in the society
User interface for print illiterate people became a subject of interest for the researchers for quite a long time
Considering availability of rich hardware features and software platforms the authors choose to use the recommendations for developing the user interface of the intended e-Learning system for the print illiterate people using text, graphics and intelligent use of audio annotation
Summary
In the backdrop of evolving different technologies, more complex set of illiteracy is being observed in the society. Most of the people in this world are print illiterate except a few languages There is another type of illiteracy observed among the people migrated from one country to another and are unable to read and write the local language [3]. Many researches are conducted to introduce innovative ICT-based services to provide information to the people living in the remote areas in the developing countries [4,5]. This research aims to develop a user interface for the print illiterate people. The authors decided to use computerized technology to store videos demonstrating the usage of different skills that can empower people in the remote areas and distribute those through a system that does not require print literacy to use. Developing a videobased e-learning system using an innovative user interface especially suitable for illiterate people.
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